BRIEF ON IRAN Representative Office of The National Council of Resistance of Iran No. 398 Wednesday, April 24, 1996 3421 M Street NW #1032, Washington, DC 20007 Terrorist Convicted of London Bomb Enters Mullahs' Parliament, Reuters, April 23 TEHRAN - A man convicted of a 1980 London car bombing that killed two people has been elected to Iran's parliament, according to official results published this week. Kourosh Fouladi, hailed in Iran as a political prisoner during his imprisonment in Britain until 1989, won the highest number of votes in Khorramabad, 400 km (250 miles) southwest of Tehran, in Friday's election. In 1982, Fouladi was sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment after a bungled London car bombing in which two men alleged to have been his accomplices were killed. Press reports in Britain said the bomb may have been intended for an Iranian opposition rally at Speakers Corner in Hyde Park.... Iran Cuts Dubai Imports To Save Hard Currency, Reuters, April 23 DUBAI - Iran cut back its imports from the main Gulf re-export emirate of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) by over 20 percent last year, according to statistics compiled by Dubai customs department. The reduction is linked by traders and shippers in the region to Tehran's need to save hard currency in order to service its estimated foreign debt of around $30 billion.... Iran -the world's third largest oil exporter- faces rescheduled annual debt repayments of some $5 billion, nearly a third of total budgeted oil export revenues of $15.99 billion. To build up currency reserves and to prevent further speculation against the Iranian rial, Tehran has introduced strict controls on the import of non-essential goods and strict currency trading regulations. Restrictions on Iranian traders' access to hard currency was also a major factor behind the cut in imports from Dubai, traders in the region said.... Iran's Terrorist Exploits Directed from Germany, The Sunday Telegraph, April 21 Germany has become the headquarters of Iran's terrorist operations in Europe, The Sunday Telegraph can disclose. The Iranian embassy in Bonn masterminds the murder of political opponents, the intimidation of dissidents and the acquisition of technology for nuclear and chemical weapons. Iran has built up its terrorist network with the tacit approval of the German authorities, in return for special trade privileges conferred by Tehran on German companies. Germany is Iran's second biggest trading partner. Although German officials have consistently denied any wrongdoing in their relations with Iran, top-secret documents compiled by German intelligence -copies of which have been passed to The Sunday Telegraph- give a detailed breakdown of Iran's terrorist network throughout Europe. The Iranian embassy in Bonn, where at least 20 Revolutionary Guards man a sophisticated, 24-hour intelligence operation, is used by Tehran to orchestrate terrorist operations across the Continent.... Confirmation that Iran has been allowed to exploit German goodwill to pursue terrorist goals will increase pressure on Chancellor Helmut Kohl to abandon Bonn's pro- Iran policies. It will also revive claims of Iranian involvement in the Lockerbie bombing in December 1988, in which 270 people died. The bomb was placed aboard Pan Am Flight 107 at Frankfurt airport.... Iranian Resistance Demands Public Trial of Zahra Rajabi's Murderers, from a statement by NCR, April 23 Turkish media reported that diplomat-terrorists operating out of the Iranian regime's embassy and consulate in Turkey planned and carried out, under the direction of the Ministry of Intelligence (SAVAMA), the assassination on February 20 of Mrs. Zahra Rajabi, a member of the National Council of Resistance, and Ali Moradi, a Mojahedin sympathizer. In an interview with a Turkish television station, a SAVAMA agent, Reza Barzgar Ma'ssoumi, arrested by the police, revealed that four of the regime's diplomat- terrorists were involved in the cowardly murders. The daily Hurriyet wrote that last month, besides Ma'ssoumi, five terrorists were arrested for taking part in the assassinations. At least two of them were Iranian and Intelligence Ministry agents.... The Iranian Resistance urges Turkish authorities to arrest, prosecute and punish other diplomat-terrorists involved in this cowardly assassination. It also calls for the closure of the regime's embassy and representative offices which only act as nests of espionage and terror on Turkish soil.